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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 95 16:26:01 MDT
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, gibbs@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: misc/292: rfc1323 and rfc1644 support can confuse terminal servers w/SLIP
Message-ID:  <9504032226.AA09297@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9504032019.AA22793@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 3, 95 04:19:17 pm

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> I think it's not unreasonable to do:
> 
> #
> # Some broken implementations can't handle the RFC 1323 and RFC 1644
> # TCP options.  If TCP connections randomly hang, try enabling this,
> # and bug the vendor of the losing equipment.
> #
> if [ "x$disable_tcp_extensions" == "xYES" ]; then
> 	sysctl -nw net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0
> 	sysctl -nw net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=0
> fi

Maybe go even further?  Something like changing:

> if [ "x$disable_tcp_extensions" == "xYES" ]; then

to:

> if [ "x$enable_tcp_extensions" != "xYES" ]; then

In other words, default it off?

I don't know which is more likely to result in "typically works without
user intervention", though...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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